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For a list of release dates and Sisense's end of support, see Sisense Life Cycle.
Release Notes
L2021.1.4.23 - March 8, 2021 - Service Pack
- Support was added for Azure Premium Disk Storage (Read more)
- Limitation: Users that were duplicated after importing from Active Directory may receive more than one email for the same report.
L2021.1.3.20 - February 25, 2021 - Service Pack
- Sisense supports dynamic parameters for connection settings, which enables you to manage a single Live data source where the parameter values for the connection depend on the user (Read more)
Selected Bug Fixes
- When using SisenseJS, the background color was missing in collapsed dashboard filters
- Reports for larger dashboards were not always sent
- Permissions errors occurred preventing connections to Google Sheets
- In some scenarios, custom tables were not included in a build
- Logs were not structured correct in some scenarios
- The date format in PDF reports ignored a user's localization settings
- The Exporting service failed when migrating
- In some scenarios the Jobs service was stuck and had to be restarted
- Deleting all pods caused new pods to get stuck while initializing due to non-existing migration pods
L2021.1.2.30 - February 19, 2021 - Service Pack
- In some scenarios, you could not connect to Google Spreadsheets in multi-node deployments
- Sisense Quest anomaly detection did not work as expected
- After building an ElastiCube, all ElastiCube Query pods start at the same time and not sequently when you have multiple pods supporting the ElastiCube
- When a filter was used in a BloX widget, it sometimes gave incorrect results
- On BigQuery Live connections, aggregate functions containing date columns could have resulted in an error when a date filter was applied
- When sorting Groups by language, the sort order did not work as expected
- Sorting Groups and Users sometimes took a long time to complete
- When restoring Sisense, the ZK pod was also erroneously restarted (as were some other third-party services)
- Permissions for ElastiCubes could not be modified
- A timeout occurred when trying to access a PostgreSQL database's list of schemas and tables
- The add_completion-ns-sisense.sh login command failed on Amazon EKS
- Upgrades did not complete for single node deployments on Amazon EKS
- The cluster was not removed when the uninstall_cluster parameter was set to true in the single_config.yaml file
L2021.1.1.71 - February 10, 2021 - Service Pack
Support was added for Single node deployments offline (Installing Sisense in an Offline (Air-Gapped) Environment)
The following issues were fixed:
- When installing Sisense offline, single nodes on existing clusters did not include sample ElastiCubes
- In some scenarios, when uninstall_cluster in the config.yaml file was set to true, the cluster was not uninstalled
- PNG files from email reports were saved in storage
- When using Sisense BloX and Jump-to-Dashboard, drilling into a dashboard did not work as expected
- In some scenarios, builds with Google BigQuery failed when the size was larger than 300M rows
- The dashboard is not loaded in the PDF preview window from the Reporting tab when sharing a dashboard
- The Jump-to-Dashboard add-on doesn't set filters from formulas in the target dashboard
- In some scenarios, a list of databases was not displayed when trying to add a new data source
- For some users, when they scheduled a dashboard report, sometimes the report didn’t send
- When running an API call with a System Admin access token, if you used the GET method with the api/globals endpoints, the hash fields were returned
- If a shared user scheduled email reports, the schedule was overwritten when the dashboard owner republished the dashboard
- Customized plugins were overwritten after Sisense was upgraded
- Reporting of dashboards that use Blox widgets sometimes failed
- Sometimes groups were not included in the request header of the authentication API
- Build preview failed when trying to use the Generic JDBC connector and the CDATA SharePoint Excel Services driver
- Some widgets embedded in emails were either cropped or didn’t display properly
- Non-supported connection options were included in the “recent connections” list
- The old and new translator sometimes showed different results
- Duplicating a shared dashboard, and then changing the ownership to a different user, sometimes resulted in the original owner receiving a 403 error
- The exporting service stopped working after sending 7-8 email reports with an attached PDF
- Yellow highlighting did not disappear when scrolling or selecting checkboxes after creating groups and assigning values
- If one plugin failed during a build, all other plugins also failed during the build
- There was no descriptive error message when a connection failed is Sisense was unable to resolve the connection parameters
- In the Connection Wizard, parameter fields did not have any validation
- When running or editing dashboards, sometimes the widgets did not load and Sisense froze
- In some cases, query errors did not include error details
- Incorrect values sometimes displayed when setting the date filter to a date range
- When the dashboard was filtered by date, and the “highlight” option was displayed, filter values were displayed with marker dots, instead of displaying as sliced
- If more than 11 values were used in a bar or column chart, the display order was incorrect
- If two dashboard filters on the same column were applied and one was disabled for a specific widget, when viewing the widget in edit mode, sometimes all filters were disabled
- After changing the timezone on the server, the time in the subject of email reports were different from the time on the server
- In some scenarios, users were redirected when a session ends with CSRF enabled
- An Admin user who does not own a dashboard could not share or access some elements
- In some scenarios, builds stopped at the AddressType table
- The Create Data Notebook button was missing after upgrading to L2021.1
- Collect Usage Analytics was disabled by default
- Scheduled ElastiCube builds failed in some scenarios
- On the Data page, disabling the Break by field affected the Values state
- Received an error message when a table has no columns or did not exist
- Builds failed after a table was deleted and then recreated
- Transferring dashboard ownership broke the Owner's View
- When creating an ElastiCube, users could not select connection parameters or to create a connection based on recent Live connection with parameters
- Adding a column to a widget in a SnowFlake Live model yielded a query.log error for component: io.undertow.request
- Unable to preview PDFs on dashboards from Live sources.
January 27, 2021 - Official Release
Important to Know
- Sisense versions will now be in the format Linux-Year-Month-Version (L2021.1.0)
What's New
Custom Code
Transform your data with custom code using Jupyter notebooks
Funnel Charts
Sisense now includes Funnel Charts
Additional New Features and Improvements
- When using the Accordion add-on, you can configure it to pass all dashboard filters to the destination dashboard Read More
- Easily Customize the background color of Sisense Read More
- Improved memory consumption for MemSQL, MSSQL, SalesForce, Athena, and EC2EC
- Download logs to send to Sisense Support Read More
- Sisense on EKS, GKE, and AKS supports Kubernetes 1.18
What’s Fixed
- The /user POST API did not accept empty Name fields
- The /users V1.0 endpoint did not support search capabilities
- Viewers will no longer see the Clear Selection feature on widgets as it was not available for them
- CORS configurations were not supported for some REST API endpoints
- Columns included in hidden tables are not returned in API calls
- When using the Frame SDK, applying filters did not always work as expected
- Blox Submit action did not work with external requests due to withCredentials and 'internal' header
- You can now set ElastiCube names up to 60 characters
- If a JAQL call fails when data security is applied, the filter now switches to “include all” status so that data security can be applied
- Dependent filters that include a background filter now produces more accurate results
- Dashboards with data security now load much faster
- Custom columns that query themselves in SQL expressions now result in an error message with instructions for how to proceed
- When attempting to back up system farms with queryable data when the farms are stored in S3, a message now informs you that only the schema will be backed up, not the data
- Attempting to build a data model and the result is empty a 404 message no longer appears
- When the GET /api/v2/builds request is executed without any additional parameters by a Data Designer, this request now returns a list of available builds.
- When using an iFrame with JWT, when a session ends the user is now redirected to the dashboard, not to the Home page.
- If the parentId property in v1/folders/{id} is empty, the left-hand navigation menu now displays all dashboards, instead of showing none
- The left-hand menu now loads faster
- Helm charts now support custom affinity and node selector rules, as well as custom labels
- Font and checkbox display issues in Internet Explorer 11 are resolved
- "WEEK" was not exported to CSV files as expected